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In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated! — Sergio Aragones

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect. — Tess Gerritsen

But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18 — Stephen King

In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them! — Avijeet Das

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish. — Amish Tripathi

Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy. — Nicholas Mosley

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful. — Demetri Martin

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. — John Green

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J.K. Rowling

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. — Timothy Noah

The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring. — Ada Calhoun

Perspective will come in retrospect. — Melody Beattie

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us. — Ayya Khema

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up. — Mark Valley

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before. — Ravi Zacharias

There are so many things I wish I had learned when I was 16 or 17 years old. They would have been game changers in my life. — Pete Herr

I really tend to write in retrospect. — Randy Houser

I will say that all it takes is one group of wrong-minded people with a bad idea that, in retrospect, sounded like a good one at the time. — Ernie Lindsey

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man. — Martial

I have always been much cleverer in retrospect. — Jaida Jones

Righteousness is easy in retrospect. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect. — John Green

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. — Mary Catherine Bateson

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. — Mignon McLaughlin

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect. — Sophocles

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success. — Guillermo Del Toro

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. — Marilynne Robinson

Evil is obvious only in retrospect. — Gloria Steinem

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. — Criss Jami

There are many things we only see
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent. — A.J.P. Taylor

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. — Barack Obama

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate. — Simon Jordan

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge

In retrospect, you know all the answers. You know the shadowy throes of your heart. — Leah Raeder

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. — Steve Carlton

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ... — Michael Lewis

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. — Evelyn Waugh

Retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But — Walter Isaacson

In retrospect they might have started sleeping together solely out of conversational exhaustion. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. — Kate Atkinson

Retrospect: the sweetener of life. — Kamand Kojouri

We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good. — Eshkol Nevo

Often a retrospect delights the mind. — Dante Alighieri

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson

That's like looking for dick in a lesbian bar. In retrospect, Chase would agree. But he'd — Anonymous

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. — Don Henley

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended. — Gottfried Helnwein

But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Destiny exists only in retrospect. — Marty Rubin

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool. — Leila Sales

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy. — Jim Butcher

I have had . . . easier days. Although in retrospect, this one is not atypical. — Robin Furth

How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future. — Freda Lightfoot

Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness. — Donna Tartt

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. — Chuck Palahniuk

People always understand everything in retrospect. — Agnes Denes

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making. — Jim Butcher

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. — Marilynne Robinson

In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect? — Marty Feldman

Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever. — David Darson

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. — Edward Teller

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect. — Peter Akinti

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. — David Baker

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life. — William Bolcom

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight. — Lance Loud

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. — Tana French

No retrospect will take us to the true beginning — George Eliot

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — Paul Kingsnorth

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — David Sze

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. — Alan Greenspan

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect. — Mark Fletcher

Time has a way of reminding us of its perishable nature in the retrospect of our reflections. — Gary Westfal

Experience is retrospect knowledge. — Hosea Ballou

You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school. — Jennifer Close

Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! — Joyce Carol Oates

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters

Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were? — Nina George

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. — Wayne Newton

In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire. — Richelle Mead

One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable. — Kim Stanley Robinson

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred De Musset

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. — Paul Theroux